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All Stars - Fiction

• Sunnyside
  Author: Gold, Glen David
  $ 27.50 ISBN: 9780307270689 Date: 2009
  Booklist PW LJ
  From the author of the acclaimed bestseller Carter Beats the Devil comes a novel that dramatizes the moment when American capitalism, a world at war, and the emerging mecca of Hollywood intersect to spawn an enduring culture of celebrity.
  Updated 4.22.09
• Love and Obstacles
  Author: Hemon, Aleksandar
  $ 24.95 ISBN: 9781594488641 Date: 2009
  PW Booklist Kirkus
  Aleksandar Hemon earned his reputationa and his MacArthur agenius grantaafor his short stories, and he returns to the form with a powerful collection of linked stories that stands with The Lazarus Project as the best work of his celebrated career. A few of the stories have never been published before; the others have appeared in "The New Yorker," and several of those have also been included in "The Best American Short Stories." - Publisher Marketing
  Updated 3.31.09
  
• Brothers
  Author: Hua, Yu
  $ 29.95 ISBN: 9780375424991 Date: 2009
  Kirkus PW Booklist
  From the acclaimed--and controversial--Chinese novelist comes a spirited comedy of society running amok. By turns comic and tragic, filled with sly humor and a vibrant sense of life in China today, Brothers is the most important work to date from this award-winning writer.
  Updated 1.27.09
  
• The City & the City
  Author: Mieville, China
  $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780345497512 Date: 2009
  Booklist PW Kirkus
  "New York Times"-bestselling author Mieville delivers an existential thriller set in a city that is unlike any other, real or imagined--a murder mystery taken to dazzling metaphysical and artistic heights.
  Suggested Reading: All Stars
  Updated 5.18.09
  
• Doghead
  Author: Ramsland, Morten
  $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780312376543 Date: 2009
  Booklist PW LJ
  This exuberant saga--winner of Book of the Year in Denmark--follows three generations of a wildly dysfunctional Norwegian family. A huge international success . . . [Doghead] combines rambunctiousness, salty humor, and poetic imagination--"Independent on Sunday" (UK).
  Updated 2.27.09
  
• The Weight of Heaven
  Author: Umrigar, Thrity
  $ 25.99 ISBN: 9780061472541 Date: 2009
  PW Booklist LJ
  From the bestselling author of The Space Between Us comes an emotionally-charged story about unexpected death, unhealed wounds, and the price one father will pay to protect himself from pain and loss.
  Suggested Reading: All Stars
  Updated 2.27.09
  
• My Father's Tears and Other Stories
  Author: Updike, John
  $ 25 ISBN: 9780307271563 Date: 2009
  Booklist Kirkus LJ PW
  Updike's first collection of new short fiction since the year 2000, My Father's Tears finds the author in a valedictory mood as he mingles narratives of his native Pennsylvania with stories of New England suburbia and of foreign travel.
  Updated 4.22.09
  

All Stars - Crime Fiction

• A Trace of Smoke
  Author: Cantrell, Rebecca
  $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780765320445 Date: 2009
  Kirkus PW LJ
  This suspenseful first novel follows an undercover crime reporter in Berlin in 1931 as she searches for her brother's killer, a trail that leads from the city's dark underbelly to the top ranks of the rising Nazi party.
  Suggested Reading: All Stars
  Updated 5.18.09
  
• Sworn to Silence
  Author: Castillo, Linda
  $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780312374976 Date: 2009
  LJ PW Booklist
  Kate Burkholder, who grew up in the Amish community before leaving for the outside world, has recently been appointed Chief of Police in her former hometown. What she returns to find is a world where good and evil collide.
  Suggested Reading: All Stars
  Updated 5.1.09
  
• Gone Tomorrow: Jack Reacher
  Author: Child, Lee
  $ 27 ISBN: 9780385340571 Date: 2009
  Booklist LJ PW
  New York Times"-bestselling author Child returns with his latest explosive and nearly impossible to put down ("People") thriller. Jack Reacher is back and he's been cast as a suspect on the world's biggest stage: New York City.
  Suggested Reading: All Stars
  Updated 4.22.09
  
• The Scarecrow
  Author: Connelly, Michael
  $ 28 ISBN: 9780316166300 Date: 2009
  PW LJ Booklist
  Forced out of the "Los Angeles Times" amid the latest budget cuts, newspaperman Jack McEvoy decides to go out with a bang, using his final days at the paper to write the definitive murder story of his career.
  Suggested Reading: All Stars
  Updated 5.1.09
  
• Spade and Archer: The Prequel to the Maltese Falcon
  Author: Gores, Joe
  $ 24 ISBN: 9780307264640 Date: 2009
  Booklist Kirkus PW LJ
  A gritty, pitch-perfect noir novel, Spade & Archer is the authorized prequel to Dashiell Hammett's classic, The Maltese Falcon. In 1921, P.I. Sam Spade tangles with a villain who's planned what he thinks is the perfect crime. And he'll fall in love--though it won't turn out for the best.
  Suggested Reading: All Stars
  Updated 2.27.09
  
• Starvation Lake
  Author: Gruley, Bryan
  $ 14 ISBN: 9781416563624 Date: 2009
  Booklist LJ PW
  In the dead of a Michigan winter, pieces of a snowmobile wash up near the crumbling, small town of Starvation Lake -- the same snowmobile that went down with Starvation's legendary hockey coach years earlier. But everybody knows Coach Blackburn's accident happened five miles away on a different lake. As rumors buzz about mysterious underground tunnels, the evidence from the snowmobile says one thing: murder.
  Gus Carpenter, editor of the local newspaper, has recently returned to Starvation after a failed attempt to make it big at the "Detroit Times", In his youth, Gus was the goalie who let a state championship get away, crushing Coach's dreams and earning the town's enmity. Now he's investigating the murder of his former coach. But even more unsettling to Gus are the holes in the town's past and the gnawing suspicion that those holes may conceal some dark and disturbing secrets secrets that some of the people closest to him may have killed to keep. - Publisher Marketing
  Suggested Reading: All Stars
  Updated 3.3.09
  
• Vish Puri: The Case of the Missing Servant
  Author: Hall, Tarquin
  $ 24 ISBN: 9781416583684 Date: 2009
  Kirkus LJ Booklist
  The first in an irresistible new detective series introduces Vish Puri, who styles himself as the best private investigator in India. His main gig is running background checks, but bigger, more sensational cases are coming his way.
  Suggested Reading: All Stars
  Updated 5.15.09
  
• The Last Child
  Author: Hart, John
  $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780312359324 Date: 2009
  LJ Booklist Kirkus
  Fresh off the success of his Edgar Award-winning, "New York Times" bestseller Down River, Hart returns with the story of a young boy's hunt for his missing sister, and the dark truths he uncovers in his North Carolina hometown.
  Suggested Reading: All Stars
  Updated 3.31.09
  
• The Dark Horse
  Author: Johnson, Craig
  $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780670020874 Date: 2009
  PW Kirkus Booklist
  Interweaving classic noir sensibilities and humor with contemporary themes of social justice, Johnson's popular Walt Longmire mystery series transports readers to the sparse and rugged landscape of Wyoming.
  Suggested Reading: All Stars
  Updated 5.15.09
  
• Death Wore White
  Author: Kelly, Jim
  $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780312570811 Date: 2009
  Kirkus PW LJ
  Rookie detective Peter Shaw, along with his chain-smoking, hard-as-nails veteran partner is confronted with a baffling crime that stretches him to the breaking point.
  Updated 6.11.09
  
• Revenge of the Spellmans
  Author: Lutz, Lisa
  $ 25 ISBN: 9781416593386 Date: 2009
  PW LJ Booklist
  The author of the "New York Times" bestseller The Spellman Files and Curse of the Spellmans returns with the third installment in the series that features the zany, dysfunctional Spellman family.
  Suggested Reading: All Stars
  Updated 3.3.009
  
• Londongrad
  Author: Nadelson, Reggie
  $ 25 ISBN: 9780802717528 Date: 2009
  PW LJ Kirkus
  Through seven previous novels, Nadelson has created one of the more memorable characters in detective fiction: Artie Cohen. In Londongrad, Artie is faced with a murder that strikes at him personally and will ultimately place his best friend's life in his hands.
  Updated 6.10.09
  
• Nemesis
  Author: Nesbo, Jo
  $ 25.99 ISBN: 9780061655500 Date: 2009
  Kirkus PW Booklist
  Gripping and surprising, Nemesis is the new thriller by one of the biggest stars of Scandinavian crime fiction.
  Suggested Reading: All Stars
  Updated 2.15.08
  
• The Renegades
  Author: Parker, T. Jefferson
  $ 26.95 ISBN: 9780525950950 Date: 2009
  LJ Booklist PW
  Some say that outlaws no longer exist, that the true spirit of the American West died with the legendary bandits of pulp novels and bedtime stories. Deputy Charlie Hood knows that nothing could be further from the truth. These days he patrols vast stretches of the new American West, not on horseback but in his police cruiser.
  Suggested Reading: All Stars
  Updated 2.26.09
  
• Stone's Fall
  Author: Pears, Iain
  $ 28.95 ISBN: 9780385522847 Date: 2009
  Kirkus PW Booklist
  n his most dazzling novel since the groundbreaking "New York Times" bestseller An Instance of the Fingerpost, Pears tells the story of John Stone, a man so wealthy that in the years before World War I, he was able to manipulate world markets.
  Suggested Reading: All Stars
  Updated 5.1.09
  
• A Rule Against Murder
  Author: Penny, Louise
  $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780312377021 Date: 2009
  Booklist LJ Kirkus
  Agatha and Anthony Award-winning author Penny breathes brilliant new life into the classic drawing-room mystery.
  Suggested Reading: All Stars
  Updated 2.26.09
  
• Dog On It: A Chet and Bernie Mystery
  Author: Quinn, Spencer
  $ 25 ISBN: 9781416585831 Date: 2009
  Booklist LJ PW
  In this irresistible new detective series featuring a canine narrator, Quinn speaks two languages--suspense and dog--fluently. Sometimes funny, sometimes touching, and in a few places terrifying . . . [a] one-of-a-kind novel (Stephen King).
  Suggested Reading: All Stars
  Updated 1.27.09
  
• Shadow and Light
  Author: Rabb, Jonathan
  $ 26 ISBN: 9780374261948 Date: 2009
  LJ PW Booklist
  When an executive at the renowned Ufa film studios is found dead, it falls to Nikolai Hoffner, a chief inspector in the Kriminalpolizei, to investigate. With the help of Fritz Lang and Alby Pimm, Hoffner finds this case taking him into the treacherous underbelly of Berlin.
  Suggested Reading: All Stars
  Updated 3.31.09
  
• Look Again
  Author: Scottoline, Lisa
  $ 25.95 ISBN: 9780312380724 Date: 2009
  Kirkus LJ PW
  Bestselling author Scottoline's writing is sharp, intelligent, funny, and hip. . . she gives fans of thrillers a good, twisty plot, lively characters, andan all-around fun read ("USA Today").
  Suggested Reading: All Stars
  Updated 2.26.09
  
• Drood
  Author: Simmons, Dan
  $ 26.99 ISBN: 9780316007023 Date: 2009
  LJ PW Booklist
  Based on the historical details of Charles Dickens' life, Drood explores the still-unsolved mysteries of the famous author's last years and may provide the key to his final, unfinished work: The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
  Suggested Reading: All Stars
  Updated 2.28.09
  
• The Tourist
  Author: Steinhauer, Olen
  $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780312369729 Date: 2009
  LJ Booklist PW
  Steinhauer--twice nominated for an Edgar Award--tackles an intricate story of betrayal and manipulation, loyalty and risk in an utterly compelling novel that is both thoroughly modern and yet also reminiscent of classic espionage thrillers by Graham Greene and John LeCarre.
  Suggested Reading: All Stars
  Updated 1.27.09
  
• Liar's Anonymous
  Author: Ure, Louise
  $25.95 ISBN: 9780312375867 Date: 2009
  Kirkus Booklist LJ PW
  A roadside assistance operator hears a man being killed while she's on the phone with him and now she's the only witness--to murder.
  Suggested Reading: All Stars
  Updated 2.27.09
  

Crime Fiction

• The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
  Author: Bradley, Alan
  $ 23 ISBN: 9780385342308 Date: 2009
  Kirkus Booklist
  In his wickedly brilliant first novel, Debut Dagger Award winner Alan Bradley introduces one of the most singular and engaging heroines in recent fiction: eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison. It is the summer of 1950--and a series of inexplicable events has struck Buckshaw, the decaying English mansion that Flavia's family calls home. - Publisher Marketing
  Suggested Reading: Debuts
  Updated 5.1.09
  
• The Girl She Used to Be
  Author: Cristofano, David
  $ 22.99 ISBN: 9780446582223 Date: 2009
  PW
  When Melody Grace McCartney was six, she and her parents witnessed an act of violence so brutal it changed their lives forever. Now, Jonathan Bovaro, the mafioso sent to hunt her down in the Witness Protection Program, is insistent that she's just a pawn in the government's war against the Bovaro family.
  Suggested Reading: Debuts
  Updated 2.26.09
  
• Bad Things Happen
  Author: Dolan, Harry
  $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780399155635 Date: 2009
  Booklist PW
  David Loogan finds himself drawn into a friendship with Tom Kristoll, the publisher of a mystery magazine. But as several deaths are uncovered--some of them echoing stories published in the magazine--Loogan begins to look more and more like the most promising suspect.
  Updated 6.1.09
  
• Dark Places
  Author: Flynn, Gillian
  $ 24 ISBN: 9780307341563 Date: 2009
  Booklist PW
  "Flynn is the real deal, a sharp, acerbic, and compelling storyteller with a knack for the macabre."--Stephen King.
  Updated 3.31.09
  
• Fragment
  Author: Fahy, Warren
  $ 25 ISBN: 9780553807530 Date: 2009
  PW
  A television crew stumbles onto an unexplored island inhabited by terrifying creatures and seething with danger. There's no question it is the reality-TV chance of a lifetime, but will it be the death of the crew--or something more precious?
  Updated 5.15.09
  
• Even
  Author: Grant, Andrew
  $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780312540265 Date: 2009
  LJ PW
  David Trevellyan is a Royal Navy intelligence operative who usually works undercover. On a late-night walk in New York City, he finds a homeless man who has been shot to death. Just then, a cop car arrives. A split second too late, Trevellyan realizes he's been set up.
  Suggested Reading: Debuts
  Updated 3.31.09
  
• The Increment
  Author: Ignatius, David
  $I26.95 ISBN: 9780393065046 Date: 2009
  Kirkus LJ
  By the author of the bestselling Body of Lies comes a novel that takes the reader inside the most volatile secret of the 21st century: the Iranian nuclear program.
  Updated 4.22.09
  
• Black Water Rising
  Author: Locke, Attica
  $ 25.99 ISBN: 9780061735868 Date: 2009
  Booklist
  In the tradition of Greg Iles and Dennis Lehane comes a powerful new new voice in American fiction. Locke's debut thriller involves murder, greed, and redemption, set in the oil boomtown of 1980s Houston.
  Suggested Reading: Debuts
  Updated 3.31.09
  
• Wife of the Gods
  Author: Quartey, Kwei
  $ 24 ISBN: 9781400067596 Date: 2009
  LJ Booklist
  Lyrical and captivating, Kwei Quartey's debut novel brings to life the majesty and charm of Ghana-from the capital city of Accra to a small community where long-buried secrets are about to rise to the surface. This is a compelling and unique mystery, enriched by an exotic setting and a vivid cast. And Inspector Darko Dawson-dedicated family man, rebel in the office, and ace in the field-is one of the most appealing sleuths to come along in years. - Publisher Marketing
  Updated 5.15.09
  
• Old City Hall
  Author: Rotenberg, Robert
  $ 26 ISBN: 9780374225421 Date: 2009
  Booklist LJ
  Canada's leading radio show host, Kevin Brace, admits to killing his young wife. Detectives figure this is an open-and-shut case. With the appearance of strange fingerprints in the Brace apartment, however, the mystery gets more complex just as it should be getting simpler.
  Suggested Reading: Debuts
  Updated 2.26.09
  
• Palos Verdes Blues: Jack Liffey
  Author: Shannon, John
  $ 25 ISBN: 9781605980379 Date: 2009
  Booklist
  Jack is hired to find Blue, the missing teen-aged daughter of his ex-wife's best friend. As he investigates, Jack discovers that there is a low-intensity war going on in the L.A's posh Palos Verdes peninsula. The Bayboys, rich teen surfers, routinely vandalize cars and terrorize outsiders to enforce a locals-only policy for surfing at their own Lunada Bay. They have also started terrorizing the Mexican day-laborers who camp in the ravines between the mansions where they work as gardeners and houseboys. Jack discovers that Blue may have been bringing them food and supplies. When one stubborn Mexican boy decides that he wants to learn to surf in Lunada Bay, the feud turns violent, drawing in arsonists, angry bikers, racist border vigilantes, and Jack's daughter Maeve, who once again puts herself at risk to help her dad. - Publisher Marketing
  Updated 5.15.09
  
• The Second Death of Goodluck Tinubu: Detective Kubu
  Author: Stanley, Michael
  $ 24.99 ISBN: 9780061252495 Date: 2009
  LJ Booklist
  Botswana's Detective Kubu is caught in a twisted tangle of money, murder, and hidden motives, in his second evocative mystery from the author of A Carrion Death.
  Updated 5.15.09
  

Fiction

• The Little Giant of Aberdeen County
  Author: Baker, Tiffany
  $ 24.99 ISBN: 9780446194204 Date: 2009
  LJ PW
  In this family saga, unearthed secrets lead to the kind of betrayal that eventually breaks the Morgan family apart forever. However, one woman's reckoning with her own demons allows for both an uprooting of Aberdeen County, and the possibility of love in unexpected places.
  Updated 11.31.08
  
• Prayers for Sale
  Author: Dallas, Sandra
  $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780312385187 Date: 2009
  Booklist
  Dallas has created an unforgettable tale of a friendship between two women, one with surprising twists and turns, and one that is ultimately a revelation of the finest parts of the human spirit.Updated 3.31.09
  
• Eve: A Novel of the First Woman
  Author: Elliott, Elissa
  $ 24 ISBN: 9780385341448 Date: 2009
  LJ
  In this luminous debut novel, Elliott puts a powerful twist on biblical narrative, boldly reimagining Eve's journey. At once intimate and universal, timely and timeless, this unique work of fiction blends biblical tradition with recorded history and dazzling storytelling.
  Updated 1.27.09
  
• A Reliable Wife
  Author: Goolrick, Robert
  $ 23.95 ISBN: 9781565125964 Date: 2009
  Kirkus
  Set in rural Wisconsin in 1909, Ralph Truitt stands alone on a train platform waiting for the woman who answered his newspaper advertisement for "a reliable wife." But when Catherine Land steps off the train from Chicago, she's not the "simple, honest woman" that Ralph is expecting.
  Updated 3.31.09
  
• All Other Nights
  Author: Horn, Dara
  $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780393064926 Date: 2009
  PW Booklist
  On Passover in 1862, Jacob Rappaport, a Jewish soldier in the Union army, is ordered to murder his own uncle, who is plotting to assassinate President Lincoln. After that night, will Jacob ever speak for himself?
  Updated 4.22.09
  
• Addition
  Author: Jordan, Toni
  $ 24.99 ISBN: 9780061582578 Date: 2009
  Kirkus LJ
  As charming as The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, this wonderful debut novel is full of wit and intelligence. Jordan has created such a real character in Grace that [readers] are cheering her on--"Sydney Morning Herald."
  Updated 1.27.09
  
• The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet
  Author: Larsen Reif
  $ 27.95 ISBN: 9781594202179 Date: 2009
  LJ Booklist
  This brilliant, boundary-leaping debut novel traces 12-year-old genius map-maker T.S. Spivet's attempts to understand the ways of the world.
  Updated 5.15.09
  
• The Piano Teacher
  Author: Lee, Janice Y.K.
  $ 25.95 ISBN: 9780670020485 Date: 2009
  PW LJ
  In the sweeping tradition of The English Patient comes this gripping tale set in war-torn Hong Kong. Rich with intrigue, romance, and betrayal, this wonderfully written, utterly captivating novel dazzles . . .--Chang-rae Lee.
  Updated 11.3.08
  
• The Family Man
  Author: Lipman, Elinor
  $ 25 ISBN: 9780618644667 Date: 2009
  PW LJ
  A hysterical phone call from his ex-wife and a familiar face in a photograph upend Henry Archer's well-ordered life to bring him back into contact with the child he adored, a stepdaughter from a misbegotten marriage long ago.
  Updated 5.15.09
  
• The Four Corners of the Sky
  Author: Malone, Michael
  $ 24.99 ISBN: 9781570717444 Date: 2009
  Booklist Kirkus
  From the masterful author of Handling Sin comes this riveting novel of love, secrets, and the mysterious bonds of family.
  Updated 4.22.09
  
• Woodsburner
  Author: Pipkin, John
  $ 24 ISBN: 9780385528658 Date: 2009
  Kirkus LJ
  On April 30, 1844, Henry David Thoreau accidentally started a forest fire that destroyed 300 acres of the Concord woods. Against the background of Thoreau's fire, Pipkin's ambitious debut penetrates the mind of the young philosopher.
  Updated 4.22.09
  
• A Monster's Notes
  Author: Sheck, Laurie
  $ 30 ISBN: 9780307271051 Date: 2009
  Kirkus Booklist
  This bold, genre-defying book offers Mary Shelley's monster's story in his own words. Sheck's thrilling work is a luminous meditation on creativity and technology, alienation and otherness, and on the need to be understood.
  Updated 5.21.09
  
• Into the Beautiful North
  Author: Urrea, Luis Alberto
  $ 24.99 ISBN: 9780316025270 Date: 2009
  Booklist
  Nineteen-year-old Nayeli works at a taco shop in her Mexican village and dreams about her father, who journeyed to the U.S. to find work. Into the Beautiful North is the story of a young woman's quest to find herself on both sides of the fence.
  Updated 3.31.09
  
• Sag Harbor
  Author: Whitehead, Colson
  $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780385527651 Date: 2009
  Booklist PW
  In this deeply affectionate and fiercely funny coming-of-age novel, Whitehead--using the perpetual mortification of teenage existence and the desperate quest for reinvention--beautifully explores racial and class identity, illustrating the complex rhythms of the adult world.
  Updated 2.26.09
  
• Cutting for Stone
  Author: Verghese, Abraham
  $ 26.95 ISBN: 9780375414497 Date: 2009
  PW
  A stunning debut novel from the author of My Own Country: an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, fathers and sons, doctors and patients, exile and home.
  Updated 1.27.09
  

Romance

• 5 Bodies to Die For
  Author: Bond Stephanie
  $ 7.99 ISBN: 9780778327059 Date: 2009
  Booklist
  The Charmed Killer is on the loose in Atlanta, and Carlotta Wren is caught up in the terror--especially when her body-moving side business brings her dangerously close to the action. Carlotta can't shake the feeling that the killer's exploits are becoming personal.
  Updated 5.21.09
  
• Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs
  Author: Harper, Molly
  $ 7.99 ISBN: 9781416589426 Date: 2009
  PW
  The first installment of a funny, smart, and sexy new romantic series by a debut author introduces Jane Jameson, an out-of-work, small-town librarian who is turned into a vampire.
  Updated 2.26.09
  
• Some Like It Wild
  Author: Mederios, Teresa
  $ 7.99 ISBN: 9780061235368 Date: 2009
  LJ
  A follow-up to the bestseller Some Like It Wicked, this lushly written historical is set in the Scottish Highlands. Determined to save her sister from selling her virtue, a resourceful English beauty needs a Highland brute to pose as a duke's long-lost heir.
  Updated 4.22.09
  
• The Wicked Way of a True Hero
  Author: Metzger, Barbara
  $ 6.99 ISBN: 9780451226341 Date: 2009
  Booklist
  Daniel Stamfield is invaluable to the British Army for his ability to detect the truth from the enemy's lies. After years of service, Daniel finally takes a respite, but doesn't count on Corisande Abbott and her unsavory reputation to reenter his life.
  Updated 3.31.09
  

Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror

• The Warded Man
  Author: Brett, Peter V.
  $ 25 ISBN: 9780345503800 Date: 2009
  LJ
  As darkness falls each night, demons well up from the ground. They possess supernatural strength and burn with a consuming hatred of humanity. Three young survivors of vicious demon attacks dare to risk everything in a desperate quest to regain the secrets of the past.
  Updated 3.31.09
  
• Breathers: A Zombie's Lament
  Author: Browne, S.G.
  $ 14 ISBN: 9780767930611 Date: 2009
  PW
  Meet Andy Warner, a recently deceased everyman and newly minted zombie. Abandoned by his friends and reviled by a society that no longer considers him human, Andy is having a bit of trouble adjusting. But all that changes when he goes to an Undead Anonymous meeting and meets a few kindred souls.
  Suggested Reading: Zombies
  Updated 3.31.09
  
• Dead Man's Boots
  Author: Carey, Mike
  $ 25 ISBN: 9780446580328 Date: 2009
  PW LJ
  A brutal murder in King's Cross bears all the hallmarks of a long-dead American serial killer, and it takes more good sense than Castor possesses not to get involved.
  Suggested Reading: Cross Genres
  Updated 6.10.09
  
• Act of Will
  Author: Hartley, A.J.
  $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780765321244 Date: 2009
  PW
  ""New York Times"-bestselling author Harley pens a fantasy with plenty of mystery and adventure, set in a mythical world reminiscent of Shakespearean England and told by a morally dubious apprentice actor called Will Hawthorne.
  Updated 2.26.09
  
• Blood and Ice
  Author: Masello, Robert
  $ 24 ISBN: 9780553807288 Date: 2009
  PW Booklist
  From the battlefields of the Crimean War to the depths of present-day Antarctica, this gripping novel spans centuries to tell a tale that is at once an edge-of-the-seat vampire thriller and sweeping love story.
  Updated 2.26.09
  
• The Red Wolf Conspiracy
  Author: Redick, Robert V.S.
  $ 26 ISBN: 9780345508836 Date: 2009
  Kirkus LJ
  A publishing sensation in England, The Red Wolf Conspiracy marks the debut of a gifted young writer. Scant years after a terrible war that shook empires, a 600-year-old ship sails for enemy lands and must deal with deadly assassins, treacherous mermaids, and monstrous slavers.
  Updated 3.31.09
  
• Bad to the Bone
  Author: Smith-Ready, Jeri
  $ 15 ISBN: 9781416551782 Date: 2009
  PW
  The sassy, sexy, and strikingly original follow-up to Smith-Ready's urban fantasy Wicked Game stars a feisty woman with a criminal past who takes a job at a radio station populated by vampire DJs.
  Suggested Reading: Vampires | Contemporary Fantasy
  Updated 3.31.09
  
• Wake
  Author: Sawyer, Robert J.
  $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780441016792 Date: 2009
  PW
  Although Caitlin Decter is blind, she can effortlessly surf the Internet by following its complex paths clearly in her mind. When she receives an implant to restore her sight, instead of seeing reality, the landscape of the World Wide Web explodes into her consciousness.
  Updated 2.26.09
  
• Lamentation
  Author: Scholes, Ken
  $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780765321275 Date: 2009
  PW
  This remarkable first novel from an award-winning short-fiction writer envisions an Earth so far in the distant future that our time is not even a memory, a world where magick is commonplace and great areas of the planet are impassable wastes, but war, faith, and love still move princes and nations.
  Updated 2.26.09
  
• Midwinter
  Author: Sturges, Matthew
  $ 15.98 ISBN: 9781591027348 Date: 2009
  PW LJ
  With time running out, Mauritaine and his companions are forced to cross the deadly Contested Lands filled with dire magical fallout from wars past. In the process, they must confront mounted patrols, brigands, and a traitor in their midst.
  Updated 3.30.09
  
• This Is Not a Game
  Author: Williams, Walter Jon
  $24.99 ISBN: 9780316003155 Date: 2009
  PW
  In this near-future thriller, Williams weaves a pulse-pounding tale of intrigue, murder, and games where players don't get a second chance.
  Updated 3.31.09